A sudden rush for MQ's?

[wibblefishbanana]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4282175.stm

 

[in_the_cheapseats]

PC gone mad. And the rest of the services will follow. It does not sit well with an infanteers ethos.

On another note, how about getting the non-married long term co-habiting heterosexual couples sorted first? Follow the aussie services rules (proof of shared interests/love?! and bank accounts from what has been explained to me) and completely give up on traditional values - ergo no more to complain about

 

[Akira]

Agree with wibblefishbanana

lets sort out the silent majority first, before appeasing the loud minority. I honestly don't think it will be long before homosexuality becomes a career move.

 

[BuggerAll]

I'll be buggered if I'll join the Navy!

 

[rennug]

I'll be buggered if I'll join the Navy!

hope you heard the news today, Navy now planning to actively recruit more gays.

'More Rum, Bum and Backy for the boys in Blue - but steady on the booze and fags'

 

[doomsayer]

On another note, how about getting the non-married long term co-habiting heterosexual couples sorted first? Follow the aussie services rules (proof of shared interests/love?! and bank accounts from what has been explained to me) and completely give up on traditional values - ergo no more to complain about

I would expect that the MQ allocations will be equally open to hetrosexual and homosexual couples, who have entered into a civil partnership; to do otherwise would be discrimination.

Personally, so long as the relationship (whatever it is - hetro/homo) does not affect operational effectiveness or the integrity of the unit, I think that MQs should be available to them. However, I would expect that stringent criteria are applied to ensure that people do not meet a girl/boy on a Friday night and apply for a MQ the next week.

 

[Biscuits_AB]

I'll be buggered if I'll join the Navy!

You sure will.

 

[hup-two-three]

PC gone mad. And the rest of the services will follow. It does not sit well with an infanteers ethos.

Tend to agree but Alexander the Great's army had a large contingent of homos and they were a pretty good mob. Was he the exception that proved the ethos?

I co-habited with 19 other blokes but they never gave us a MQ - was that discrimination I wonder?